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• Frontier women
• Pioneer women

• Woman on the American frontier [electronic resource] : a valuable and authentic history of the heroism, adventures, privations, captivities, trials, and noble lives and deaths of the "pioneer mothers of the republic" / (Hartford [Conn.] : S.S. Scranton, 1881), by William Worthington Fowler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letters of a woman homesteader [electronic resource] / (Toronto : McClelland, Goodchild and Stewart, c1914), by Elinore Pruitt Stewart (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Rebecca Winters story. (Gering, NE : Scotts Bluff National Monument, [1996?]), by United States National Park Service (page images at HathiTrust)
• Narrative of my captivity among the Sioux Indians / (Chicago: R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co., 1891, c1871), by Fanny Kelly (page images at HathiTrust)
• The last trail : a story of early days in the Ohio Valley / (New York : A.L. Burt Company, c1909), by Zane Grey, J. Watson Davis, and A.L. Burt Company. pbl, illust. by J. Watson Davis (page images at HathiTrust)
• The crux : a novel / (New York : Charlton Company, 1911), by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Black Creek stopping-house : and other stories /, by Nellie L. McClung (page images at HathiTrust)
• Augusta Tabor : her side of the scandal / (Boulder, Colo. : Johnson Pub. Co., c1961), by Caroline Bancroft (page images at HathiTrust)
• Judith of the plains; a novel, (New York, London, Harper & brothers, 1903), by Marie Manning (page images at HathiTrust)
• In the hands of the Senecas, (Boston, Little, Brown and company, 1951 [c1947]), by Walter D. Edmonds (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Faithful transgressions in the American West : six twentieth-century Mormon women's autobiographical acts / (Logan : Utah State University Press, 2004), by Laura L. Bush (page images at HathiTrust)
• In the hands of the Senecas, (Boston, Little, Brown and company, 1947), by Walter D. Edmonds (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ranch life in California. : Extracted from the home correspondence of E.M.H. (London : W.H. Allen & Co., 13 Waterloo Place, Pall Mall, S.W., 1886), by E. M. H. (Evelyn M. Hertslet), contrib. by W.H. Allen & Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mormon midwife : the 1846-1888 diaries of Patty Bartlett Sessions / (Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press, 1997), by Patty Bartlett Sessions and Donna Toland Smart (page images at HathiTrust)
• A lady's life on a farm in Manitoba. / (London : W.H. Allen & Co., 13 Waterloo Place, Pall Mall. SW, 1884), by Cecil Hall, contrib. by W.H. Allen & Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• Zilla Fitz James, the female bandit of the South-West, or, The horrible, mysterious and awful disclosures in the life of the Creole murderess, Zilla Fitz James, paramour and accomplice of Green H. Long, the treble murderer for the space of six years. : An autobiographical narrative, / (Little Rock, Ark. : Published by A.R. Orton, 1852), by Zilla Fitz James, ed. by A. Richards, contrib. by A. R. Orton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Obituary, memorial sermon and tributes of regard on the occasion of the death of Mrs. Huldana Squier Henry : born at New Haven, Vt., July 22, 1811, and died at Detroit, Mich., May 3, 1880., by Zachary Eddy and Lockwood & Brainard Co. Case (page images at HathiTrust)
• Burning Daylight, (New York, The Macmillan company, 1910), by Jack London, George W. Hood, printer Berwick & Smith, printer J.S. Cushing & Co, and printer Norwood Press, contrib. by Macmillan Company, illust. by Wallace Morgan (page images at HathiTrust)
• The spirit of the border: a romance of the early settlers in the Ohio valley, (New York, A.L. Burt company, [c1906]), by Zane Grey and J. Watson Davis (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Burning daylight / (New York : The Macmillan company, ;, 1913, c1910), by Jack London, contrib. by Macmillan Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• My Ántonia / (Boston : Houghton Mifflin, ©1954), by Willa Cather (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A lady's ranche life in Montana. / (London : W.H. Allen & Co., 13 Waterloo Place, Pall Mall, S.W., 1887), by I. R. (Isabelle Randall), contrib. by W.H. Allen & Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• Burning Daylight / (New York, : Grosset & Dunlap, 1910), by Jack London (page images at HathiTrust)
• Deh-he-wa-mis: or, A narrative of the life of Mary Jemison, otherwise called the white woman, who was taken captive by the Indians in MDCCLV; and who continued with them seventy eight years. : Containing an account of the murder of her father and his family; her marriages and sufferings; Indian barbarities, customs and traditions. / (Batavia, N.Y. : Published by William Seaver and Son, 1842), by James E. Seaver and Ebenezer Mix (page images at HathiTrust)

• Beth Norvell: A Romance of the West (Chicago: A. C. McClurg and Co., 1907), by Randall Parrish, illust. by N. C. Wyeth (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Crux: A Novel (New York: Charlton Company, 1911), by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Light of Western Stars, by Zane Grey (Gutenberg text)
• Molly McDonald: A Tale of the Old Frontier (Chicago: A. C. McClurg and Co., 1912), by Randall Parrish, illust. by E. L. Blumenschein (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• My Ántonia (Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1994), by Willa Cather, ed. by Charles Mignon, contrib. by James Leslie Woodress, illust. by Wladyslaw T. Benda (illustrated HTML at unl.edu)
• From the West to the West: Across the Plains to Oregon (Chicago: A. C. McClurg and Co., 1905), by Abigail Scott Duniway
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• Lords of the North (Toronto: W. Briggs, ca. 1900), by Agnes C. Laut (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The New Penelope, and Other Stories and Poems, by Frances Fuller Victor (Gutenberg text)
• Betty Zane, by Zane Grey (Gutenberg text)
• Betty Zane (with illustrations by the author; New York: C. Francis Press, c1903), by Zane Grey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Betty Zane (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1903), by Zane Grey, illust. by Louis F. Grant (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Burning Daylight, by Jack London (Gutenberg text)
• Burning Daylight (New York: The Daily Worker, c1910), by Jack London (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Klondyken Kuningas (Burning Daylight in Finnish; Helsinki: Otava, 1919), by Jack London, trans. by Kerttu Emilia Simolin (Gutenberg text)
• The Last Trail, by Zane Grey (Gutenberg text)
• My Ántonia (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1918), by Willa Cather, illust. by Wladyslaw T. Benda (HTML and PDF at Elegant Ebooks)
• My Antonia, by Willa Cather (Gutenberg text)
• O Pioneers!, by Willa Cather
  • illustrated HTML at unl.edu
  • Gutenberg text
• The Spirit of the Border: A Romance of the Early Settlers in the Ohio Valley, by Zane Grey (Gutenberg text)
• Lännen tähtien alla (in Finnish), by Zane Grey, trans. by A. J. Salonen (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Girl of the Golden West, by David Belasco, illust. by J. N. Marchand (Gutenberg ebook)
• Onnen suosikki: Romaani (in Finnish), by Jack London, trans. by Kerttu Emilia Simolin (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Crux: A Novel, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Gutenberg ebook)
• An Oregon Girl: A Tale of American Life in the New West, by Alfred Ernest Rice, illust. by Colista Murray Dowling (Gutenberg ebook)
• My Ántonia, by Willa Cather (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Girl of the Golden West, by David Belasco (Gutenberg ebook)

• Looking Back: Canadian Women's Prairie Memoirs and Intersections of Culture, History, and Identity (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2010), by S. Leigh Matthews (PDF files at University of Calgary)

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